(19)
(11) EP 0 208 239 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
23.09.1987 Bulletin 1987/39

(43) Date of publication A2:
14.01.1987 Bulletin 1987/03

(21) Application number: 86108960

(22) Date of filing: 01.07.1986
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 04.07.1985 JP 14585885
28.08.1985 JP 18744385

(71) Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY LTD.
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(72) Inventors:
  • Matsuo, Masashi
     ()
  • Furukawa, Yutaka
     ()
  • Iwamoto, Toshio
     ()
  • Kawakami, Shoichi
     ()

   


(54) Plastic-clad light-transmitting fiber


(57) A plastic-clad light-transmitting fiber having a high NA (numerical aperture) and low transmission loss, which consists essentially of a core of quartz glass or optical glass and a clad of organopolysiloxane, wherein the clad of organopolysiloxane is a cured body having 30% by weight or more offluorine content, which is obtained by the curing reaction of a vinyl group-containing organofluoropolysiloxane and a hydrogen-containing fluorosilicone compound, and wherein the vinyl group-containing organofluorosiloxane is a copolymerized polysiloxane obtained from a hydrocarbon siloxane unit and a polyfluoroalkyl group-containing siloxane unit, with a ratio of copolymerization of hydrocarbon siloxane unit ranging from 20 to 75 mol%.





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